Comments on: Homophobic news site changes athlete Tyson Gay to Tyson Homosexualhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 15 Sep 2014 23:11:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2By: etihttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222470
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222470That’s so homosexual!
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222475
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222475This may seem funny at first, but it is actually much more threatening. This is Karl Rove tactics, their research has found that referring to people as homosexual instead of gay makes swing voters more likely to oppose gay rights and politicians who support them. This is because the word homosexual has the word “sex” in it, so it makes those readers visualize gay sex.
]]>By: Mitchhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222476
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222476Don we how our homosexual apparel.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
]]>By: BostonLibertarianhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-223502
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-223502I see a lot of left knees jerking here. Is it possible the hated AFA is terrified (just like everyone else) of breaking our ultra-sensitive liberal speech codes? I believe the term “homosexual” is a more politically correct term than calling someone “gay”. Incompetence, yes. Sinister: Doubtful.

…Just playing devil’s advocate. But then again, it’s much easier to bash everyone’s favorite bogeyman, the religious right. I’m going to go hide in my cubicle in case they come try to force me to go to church again.

]]>By: Takuanhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-231182
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-231182jeebus hated lovers marrying because of the melanin content of their hides? I suspect you might be a loony.
]]>By: mujadaddyhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222482
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222482Outed! :P
]]>By: zENithFisHstiXhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222483
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222483“It means a lot to me,” the 25-year-old Homosexual said. “I’m glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me.”

]]>By: etihttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222487
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222487They did this back on June 3rd.

I always thought that homosexual was the preferred term in news while gay was more informal. Evidently from the AP handbook I’m wrong but I think a lot of people might have that impression.

I don’t know anything about the source site but I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt rather than assigning hateful labels (and yes homophobe is often used as hate speech).

For instance, if I oppose gay marriage I’m automatically branded a homophobe. Do I fear gay people? No. But that doesn’t matter does it to people that are willing to throw hateful labels on anyone that disagrees with them.

Reminds me of the time a friend posted something to Craigslist using the phrase “an all-inclusive” … only to have the final listing read “l-inclusive.”

]]>By: ill lichhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222516
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222516There’s a place where you can order NFL jerseys with your name on the back, or the name of your favorite player, but they wouldn’t allow the word “gay” on the back, despite the fact that there is a well-known player named Randall Gay.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222520
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222520Do they say whether they bothered to get permission from the AP before rewriting AP copy?
]]>By: Antinoushttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-223544
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-223544BostonLibertarian,

If that sad, canned excuse for a point is the best that you can come up with, stay in your cubicle.

]]>By: Norahttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222524
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222524I feel pretty and witty and homosexual!
]]>By: angusmhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222526
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222526Something tells me that the traditional children’s story about the little Dutch boy with his thumb in the dyke would not be family-friendly fare after a trip through their content filter.
]]>By: Xopherhttp://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html#comment-222787
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-222787Giovanni, if you insist on construing ‘homophobe’ as the sum of its parts, then unless you fear people just like you, you’re not a homophobe. You know perfectly well what the word really means.

And yes, if you oppose gay marriage you are a homophobe. Period. All adult humans have the right to choose whom they marry (mutually, of course, and respecting consanguinity). Denying that right on the basis of people matching in sex is either a) denying their humanity or b) denying their adulthood. Either is homophobic.

In fact, “I’m not a homophobe because I’m not afraid of homosexuals” is a statement only a homophobe can make.

Yes, this has been going on for quite some time. At G-A-Y, we’ve been tracking the alterations for over a year. In one particularly egregious instance, they went so far as to change the AP’s usage of the term “same-sex opponents” so that it instead reads “advocates of traditional marriage”: